Give all the credit to UNLV and none to the Cougars. What a trashing! This
result just validates my contention that BYU is just horrible on the road when
the chips are down, as in all their losses (USU,UNM,UNLV). No athleticism, no
one to stop opposition scorers, shoddy passing, out of control play....UNREAL!
It also punctuates my views of bigtime B-Ball players don't come, and probably
can't gain admission to BYU. So why crow all the time about the program being
so wonderful? We need some meat on players down low, and some athletes who can
guard someone besides my Mother. This loss is devastating to the Cougars
chances for the conference title and the prospects for the season ending
tournaments. I am just totally disappointed at the result. Evidently, the team
missed Davies a lot more than I thought with his surgery, and the coaching staff
absolutely did not prepare this team for what happened in the first half. That
was just a joke getting down like that. What's the problem? Players that can't
get motivated enough to take care of business in the crunch is mindboggling.
Nevertheless....GO COUGARS!

I think this shows that the MWC has 3 teams that are pretty good and all very
similare. UNM, BYU and UNLV. And with the exception of SDSU after the top tier
of the league the rest of the teams are very weak. If they get 3 teams in this
year it will be interesting to see how they fare.

Re: Golfer and Dear Ute Fans, seriously. Show some integrity! Utah fans aren't
boasting or claiming they have a good team (best in the western U.S. I think I
read) this year. They are weak this year and admit it! They know they fell on
their faces against CSU and got beat by a good performance at BYU! But does
that really make your loss today any better or different? Does it really make
you feel better to be a top 12 team and lose badly to an unranked team by
commenting on losses by an admittedly weak team? Really? I mean Really? If
so, I am glad it makes you feel better but at the same time, it is too bad that
it does! Honestly, your satisfaction should come from how your team performs
not how another team fails to perform! Go Aggies, Go Lobos!

Ute fans are commenting on a loss by BYU@UNLV. That is funny. BYU will end up
14-2, UNLV 13-3 and NM 14-4. Where will Utes end up. By the way, same record
Realtime RPI predicted when the conference schedule began. Also, recruiting, one
source has Utah slightly ahead of BYU with all other sources giving the edge to
BYU. I would not say that is a ringing endorsement for a win by Utah in
recruiting. By the way, there is little difference in fans between the two
schools.

When do the Cougar trolls show up?? I'm sure your knee deep looking up some
obscure zoobe stats to1) support why this blow-out is actually a good
thing.2) How this Zoobie lose is better than the Utes victory over the
Rebles in NV.3)How to incroporate "George is still running" into the
arguement.

Can't beat a good team on the road? UNLV almost did! All they needed to do was
not have BYU outscore them by 11 on free throws (i.e., only get outscored by 6
on free throws) and they would have handed it to the Cougars at home! I guess
what I am saying is most of what you said just sounds like excuses. How would
it feel to lose once and accept it without making excuses? Do you know what you
think of others when the make excuses when they don't perform? Well, guess what
we view you the same way! Go Aggies!

Can we please not have any more games on Versus???!!! BYU football and
basketball have lost by a lot this year on Versus!!

And by the way,
anyone can beat anyone in D1 basketball--or even D1 vs D2 (Southern Baptist) or
brand new D1 teams (Seattle U) or the Utes this year even beat that same UNLV
team @ UNLV. You anti-BYUers are unreal.

The Rebels shot lights out in the first half; disappointing loss for the
Cougars, but not unexpected. BYU is still in great shape; tied for 1st place in
the MWC with all of their tough road games finished.

Didn't even
bother reading the jibberish from the Utah trolls. I'm not sure why they're even
spamming the blog with their inane comments. Utah's season is over.

Ya know what's funny is seeing all the losers and whiners on here attacking BYU
for losing a basketball game. The Utah fans and fans from any of the other
schools talk all the same when they are up and things are going well. The only
thing really notable here is all the people who are losers in the game of life
who attack those who are doing well and set high goals and standards. Not a BYU
fans here, just a neutral observation.

I agree with you! I will not make any excuses! They were really hot??? Yeah,
that's what happens when you don't defend well!! On their floor??? BYU shot
more free throws than they did and made quite a few more! Granted, BYU shot
more free throws because UNLV was more physical and defended more aggressively
but even with the 7 point deficit they probably came out on the plus side of
that defensive approach! No, BYU DID NOT play with fire, like a top 12 team,
with defensive intensity!

UNLV was definitely the better team today. They shot lights out and BYU's
defense was not very good. BYU will still win the conference with UNLV second
and NM third. Hopefully NM can beat UNLV in the conference tournament since I
don't think BYU will ever beat UNLV on their court. Definitely a match up
problem.